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...when a border dispute with Yugoslavia over Trieste prompted him to make Italy's only postwar threat to use military force. As Foreign Minister in 1960, he once had a conversation with Nikita Khrushchev in which he rebuffed the Soviet Premier's contentions with a curt "Sorry for you, but the Italian line on foreign policy is superior, thank...
Along with personnel and equipment, the CIA needs a boost in morale. In an agency of special sensitivity, Turner treated CIA officials much like swabbies on a deck detail. He eliminated 820 posts in the Directorate of Operations, dismissing veteran officers with curt notes. CIA subordinates reacted by circulating Gilbert and Sullivan parodies of their spit-and-polish director...
...will get no gifts from Yale's improving offense either. In addition to Diana (110-yd. rushing average per game), the Elis feature a pair of quarterbacks, junior starter John Rogan, who plays a classic, stand-up game, and senior Phil Manley, who runs a graceful option. Split end Curt Grieve has snared 29 passes ("Carm is starting to throw the ball more"--Restic) and fullback captain John Nitti make for an intimidating offensive picture...
Yale's offense shone only on a third-quarter drive when quarterback John Rogan hit favorite target Curt Grive again and again towards the Elis' only score. The Elis, who face Princeton next week before a trip to Cambridge, fell to 4-1 in the Ivies...
...infiltrate the Venetian blinds as Harlan, obsessed with finding the person who has been drinking from the milk bottles outside his door, strikes the culprit with a blow hard enough to kill and then hides the body in the apartment next door. The film's moral is as curt and curdled as any in old film noir: Don't die over spilled milk...